Data Scientist II

Job Locations
US-IA-Iowa City

Posted Date
6 days ago(8/8/2018 1:59 PM)

Job ID

2018-1306

# of Openings

1

Category

Research

Travel

No Travel Required

Overview

Are you passionate about solving big scientific problems in education through innovative technology and working in a highly multi-disciplinary collaborative environment? Would you like to know more about how computer vision, affective computing and machine learning are helping create new forms of learning and assessment tools? If this sounds intriguing, then we’d like to talk to you about a role as part of a new ACTNext ACT R&D team tackling a set of problems requiring significant innovation.

ACTNext has an opening for a Data Scientist II in the AI and Machine Learning group. This newly established group is pursuing cutting edge multidisciplinary research in creating a new generation of learning and assessments targeting modern educational paradigms including adaptive learning, educational content development, educational games and various forms of behavioral and in vivo assessments. We are conducting research on using rich multi-sensory data including audio and video and recent advances in NLP, computer vision, affective computing, psychometric analysis and cognitive science to build some of most advanced dynamic models for educational assessment in authentic, real-world scenarios. This is an excellent opportunity to be a part of a research and development team and make an impact with innovative education technology.

Responsibilities

TYPICAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Deliver data science projects from beginning to end, including understanding the business need, aggregating data, exploring data, building and validating predictive models, and deploying completed models to deliver business impact to the organization

Developing and running different algorithms for detecting features from multiple sensory data including text, audio and video. Fusing data and features from multiple modalities. Building discriminating classifiers, generative models and running analyses. These could be computer vision, NLP, statistical and / or machine learning algorithms

Building models for educational data mining and analysis of student/learning activity process data. Performing statistical analyses such as multivariate linear and logistic regression

Make scholarly contributions through research publications and provide technical documentation of data science projects including presentations, technical reports and code documentation

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Completion of the ACT National Career Readiness Certificate is recommended. Find a testing site near you to register for the WorkKeys assessments. Finalists for this position will be subject to a criminal background check as a condition of employment.

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